Definitions
Multiple Choice
What is it?
What is it? - Part II
What is it? - Part III
100
Extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
100
Frankie franticly frolicks for fifty flowers. A) Metaphor B) Alliteration C) Hyperbole
What is alliteration?
100
BAM! SPLASH!
What is onomatopoeia?
100

White as snow?

What is a simile?

100
I ate a million pieces of cake.
What is hyperbole?
200
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
200
The walls began to walk towards me. A) Personification B) Onomatopoeia C) Irony D) Idiom
What is personification?
200
My computer throws a fit every time I try to use it.
What is a personification?
200

The sun was a furnace.

What is a metaphor?

200
The dinner looked like a feast for a king.

What is simile?

300
An phrase that has a different meaning from the literal meaning of the words.

What is idiom?

300

Don't bite the hand that feeds you. A) Metaphor B) Simile C) Idiom D) Hyperbole

What is an idiom?

300

I heard it straight from the horse's mouth?

What is an idiom?

300

What two types of figurative language does this phrase fall under?

The wind whistled throughout the night.

What is personification and alliteration?

300
My mother is a bright light in a dark room.
What is metaphor?
400
Giving something that is not human, human traits.
What is personification?
400
He ran as fast as a cheetah? A.) simile B.) metaphor C.) pun
What is simile?
400

I love melting mashing marshmallows.

What is alliteration?

400

She slept like she had just bitten a poison apple.

What is allusion (to Snow White)?

400
This was a piece of cake!
What is idiom?
500

Making reference to another subject to create deeper meaning.

What is allusion?

500

The sky was lighting up so much that Zeus must be really angry!

What is allusion?

500

She was so frail; you could tap her and she'd fall over.

What is hyperbole?

500

A roof glistened with the sparkling dew from the morning.

What is imagery?

500
Peter Piper picked peppers.
What is alliteration?
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